Manchester yesterday joined Liverpool and Canary Wharf in London in deciding not to allow England's second World Cup game to be shown on giant screens, following crowd trouble at the weekend.

Four people were arrested in Manchester but police were more concerned by the number of people who squeezed into Exchange Square for England's opening game on Saturday - 12,000, double the number expected.

After extensive meetings involving the city council, the BBC and the police, it was decided that the screen would be switched off at teatime tomorrow when England play Trinidad and Tobago.

Liverpool city council and the Canary Wharf Group had already said they would no longer show matches on big screens after violence marred the first game. At both venues fans hurled bottles and cans.

The shutdown is a blow to the BBC, for whom the big screen initiative is a way to reach out to the public. It has also damaged the image of English football fans at a time when those who have travelled to Germany have been applauded for their good behaviour.

In Manchester organisers stressed they were shutting down the screen in Exchange Square because so many people had turned up on Saturday rather than because they feared more violence.

Unlike Canary Wharf and Liverpool, the screen in Exchange Square will be switched back on for non-England games and the council is hoping that England's third group match, against Sweden on Tuesday, will be shown in Castlefield, Manchester's canalside district.